1- Give two examples of overt rules and two examples of covert rules in your

family.
OVERT
*Cant come home after midnight
*All family members get together for dinner.

COVERT
*You cant question to decisions your father made.
*you can't talk about the problems your family had before again.

2- Please define ‘’family’’ from a systems perspective and define ‘’your family’’
by using examples for each of definition points that your textbook describes.

 An interdependent group of individuals who have a shared sense of history

experience some degree of emotional bonding devise strategies for meeting the
needs of individual members and group as a whole.

 SHARED SENSE OF HİSTORY:

Going for a night walk as a family.

 EMOTİONAL BONDİNG
The love we showed each other

 MEETING NEEDS OF INDIVIDUAL FAMILY MEMBERS & GROUP AS A WHOLE

The whole family helps mom with cooking

3- Please describe all the subsystems in your family. Explain who is in each
subsystem.

 We have 3 subsystems in our family. There are marital, parental and sibling
subsystems. My mom and my dad in the marital and parental subsystems also my
brothers and i in the sibling subsystems.

4- Using Bowen’s model, please give one example each fort he following
concepts from your own family of origin, or extended family or a neighbor’s
family.

1) Triangles/Triangulation
2) Differentiation of self
3) Family projection process
4) Multigenerational transmission process
5) Emotional cutoff
 1) Triangles/Triangulation
When my brother and dad get angry at each other instead of solving
their problems they getting mad at me for what ı’ve done.

2) Differentiation of self
Our neighbor's daughter had different political views with her family,
and even if they had different views, they were happy together because they
were a family.

3) Family projection process

My neighbor has an overweight father and he was constantly pushing
his child to practice sports and diet because of his own overweight.

4) Multigenerational transmission process

My father can’t Show us his love openly because he hasn’t seen any
openly love from his own family either.

5) Emotional Cutoff
my aunt has a conservative family. her daughter doesn't think the
same way, so they had a lot of problems, but after she started earning her
own money, they stopped seeing each other completely.

5- Give two examples for internal boundaries of your family and explain them
in detail.

1- In our family no one messes with each others phones without permission from
anyone.
2- No one forces anyone to talk about something they dont want to talk.

6- Using Minuchin’s Model, please give one example of coalition an done

example of alliance from your own family of origin or extended family or a
neighbors family and explain them in detail.

1- Alliance: My father and my brother love to play football very much, but they don’t
let me know when they go because i dont like it.

2- Coalition: When ı want to make a decision on my own, my mom and dad are
always against to me.

7-Give two examples for external boundaries of your family and explain them
in detail.

1- Problems that are discussed in the family are not discussed with someone outside
the family
2- We don’t talk about our family’s financial situation with anyone else.